Kartavya Anadkat and Fathima Abdeen win National Amateur 2019

by Shahid Ahmed - 01/09/2019

Kartavya Anadkat of Gujarat and Fathima Abdeen of Kerala are the National Amateur champions in open and women section respectively. Five players scored 8.0/10, Kartavya came out at the top due to a better tie-break score, suffering only one loss in the penultimate round against the eventual runner-up Srikanth K of SSCB who also finished with the same score. Indrajeet Mahindrakar of Maharashtra was placed third. Among the women, Fathima Abdeen of Kerala scored 7.0/10 to win the first position in her category followed by Femil Chelladurai of Tamil Nadu and Dhanashree Rathi of Maharashtra finishing at 6.5/10 each to secure second and third place respectively. Photo: Mpchess

Gujarat and Kerala triumph at National Amateur

The podium finishers at 8th National Amateur | Photo: Mpchess

Closing Ceremony of the event was graced by Madhya Pradesh Sports and Youth Welfare Director SL Thousen, Secretary of All India Chess Federation Bharat Singh Chauhan and Depy. Secretary Kapil Saxena, Madhya Pradesh Chess Association President Sunil Bansal and Chief Arbiter IA AK Joshi.

Champion - Kartavya Anadkat of Gujarat scored 8.0/10, received a beautiful trophy and ₹21000 cash | Photo: Mpchess

Kartavya's only blemish was his loss in the penultimate round against the eventual runner-up of the tournament Srikanth K of SSCB

Kartavya's best win was in round 3 against Varuan Sharma (1636) of Madhya Pradesh, when he thwarted opponent's all attempts to stir up trouble on his kingside in a game arising out of Scotch Game.

Eleventh seeded Srikanth K's dream run was halted as he lost the last round game against Karan Trivedi of Gujarat | Photo: Mpchess

Srikanth needed a draw in the final round to become champion

Indrajeet Mahindrakar secured third place with a score of 8.0/10, despite losing his seventh and eighth round game against the eventual champion Kartavya and runner-up Srikanth respectively

Champion in Women's category - Fathima Abdeen of Kerala scored 7.0/10, received a shiny new trophy and ₹10000 cash | Photo: Mpchess

Fathima suffered only two losses, one of them against the eventual champion in the final round, on her way to triumph

Fathima won Sitges Open 'B' less than a month ago | Photo: Niklesh Jain

Bhopal GM 2019 Tournament Circular was unveiled at the Closing Ceremony. Details can be found here | Photo: Mpchess

The tournament hall | Photo: Mpchess

The highest number of participants from the host state Madhya Pradesh speaks volumes about the progress of chess in the state | Photo: Mpchess

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	sex	Gr	FED	Rtg	Club/City	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	TB5
1	3		Anadkat Kartavya		GUJ	IND	2079	B-2300	8,0	0,0	61,5	67,0	52,00	7
2	11		Srikanth K.		SSCB	IND	1917	B-2000	8,0	0,0	61,0	66,5	52,00	7
3	4		Mahindrakar Indrajeet		MAH	IND	2078	B-2300	8,0	0,0	61,0	66,5	50,50	8
4	9		Pradeep Tiwari		DEL	IND	1959	B-2000	8,0	0,0	59,5	64,0	50,50	6
5	13		Trivedi Karan R		GUJ	IND	1886	B-2000	8,0	0,0	57,0	62,0	49,75	7
6	5		Tanmay Chopra		DEL	IND	2023	B-2300	7,5	0,0	55,5	59,5	43,75	5
7	33		Colaco Reuben		GOA	IND	1692	B-2000	7,5	0,0	49,5	53,0	40,25	7
8	15		Banerjee Ashutosh		CHH	IND	1821	B-2000	7,0	0,0	57,5	61,0	40,25	6
9	51		Aarush Gupta		DEL	IND	1590	B-1700	7,0	0,0	57,5	60,5	39,00	5
10	20	CM	Sharma Pankaj		PUN	IND	1767	B-2000	7,0	0,0	57,0	62,0	40,00	6
11	16		Fathima Abdeen	w	KER	IND	1809	B-2000	7,0	0,0	57,0	61,5	41,75	6
12	18		Chudasama Ankit		GUJ	IND	1798	B-2000	7,0	0,0	57,0	61,5	40,50	6
13	14		Sanchit Anand		DEL	IND	1878	B-2300	7,0	0,0	54,5	59,0	39,50	5
14	34	AIM	Mandloi Mukesh		RAJ	IND	1685	B-2000	7,0	0,0	52,0	56,0	35,50	7
15	12		Chauhan Joy		GUJ	IND	1904	B-2300	7,0	0,0	51,0	55,0	36,75	6
16	32		Sairaj Dilip Vernekar		GOA	IND	1695	B-2300	7,0	0,0	46,0	50,0	35,00	7
17	10		Sooraj M R		KER	IND	1934	B-2000	6,5	0,0	60,0	65,0	39,75	5
18	45		Subhabrata Roy		WES	IND	1629	B-1700	6,5	0,0	60,0	64,5	39,00	4
19	1		Jaiswal Puneet		DEL	IND	2184	B-2300	6,5	0,0	59,5	64,5	39,75	5
20	6		Devesh Anand Naik		GOA	IND	1996	B-2000	6,5	0,0	59,5	63,0	37,75	5
21	2		Wajih Nassir		DEL	IND	2168	B-2300	6,5	0,0	55,5	59,0	35,75	6
22	71		Femil Chelladurai	w	TN	IND	1512	B-1700	6,5	0,0	55,0	59,0	38,00	3
23	83	AIM	Sheikh Jahan		MP	IND	1427	B-1700	6,5	0,0	55,0	58,5	36,00	6
24	31	AIM	Kohli Pranav		MAH	IND	1698	B-1700	6,5	0,0	54,5	59,0	36,00	4
25	101		Kavyansh Agrawal		MP	IND	1300	B-1700	6,5	0,0	54,5	58,5	34,75	6
26	69		Kuwar Tushar		MAH	IND	1522	B-1700	6,5	0,0	54,0	58,5	34,75	6
27	28		Mayank Sharma Nandkishore		DEL	IND	1721	B-2000	6,5	0,0	54,0	58,5	34,25	6
28	39		Rathi Dhanashree	w	MAH	IND	1642	B-2000	6,5	0,0	53,5	57,0	34,25	6
29	53		Narasimha Raveendra G		AP	IND	1584	B-1700	6,5	0,0	53,5	57,0	33,75	6
30	85		Umesh Konduru		TEL	IND	1406	B-1700	6,5	0,0	52,5	57,5	36,25	6

Complete standings

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